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Working Hard for the American Dream Workers and Their Unions, World War I to the Present.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Storch, Randi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro -- The American History Series -- Title page -- Copyright page -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Back to the Future -- 1: "Everyone Was Ready For Unionism": The Precursors, Promises, and Pitfalls of Industrial Unions in the 1930s -- Political Prelude: Industrial Democracy Betrayed, from Wilson to Hoover -- Corporate Prelude: The Unintended Consequences of 1920s Corporate Policies -- Working-Class Prelude: Activism -- A New Deal for Workers: A Failed and Flawed Start -- Fighting for Unionism in the 1930s Without Meaningful Federal Protection 
505 8 |a The Wagner Act and Industrial Unionism -- Corporate Resistance and Workers' Unity -- Extending the New Deal for Workers -- Assessing Workers' New Deal and Industrial Unionism -- Conclusion -- 2: Big Wars, Big Labor, Big Costs -- Wartime Mobilization, 1939-1941 -- Government Intervention: War Industries and Labor Policies, 1941-1945 -- Wartime Demographic Developments -- Crisis in Industrial Relations, 1945-1946 -- Postwar Politics and Taft-Hartley, 1946-1948 -- Political (Mis)calculations: Operation Dixie, CIO Purges, and International Alliances, 1946-1950s -- Big Labor, Big Costs, 1955-1960s 
505 8 |a Conclusion -- 3: Civil Rights Versus Labor Rights, 1960s-1970s -- Expanding Public and Service Sectors -- Public Sector Workers and Union Rights -- New Laws and Workplace Challenges -- Women and Workplace Rights -- The Push and Pull of Changing Times: New Unionists, Rank-and-File Movements, AFL-CIO Leaders, and Nixon -- Unionists Divided and Under Siege -- Conclusion -- 4: Working More for Less and Other Troubles for Workers in the Late Twentieth Century -- Profit Making in a Global World -- The Human Price of Modern Capitalism -- The Political Shaping of the Economy 
505 8 |a The AFL-CIO Leadership's Resistance to Change -- Innovation and Possibilities -- Change from the Bottom-Up -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The Illusive American Dream: A Personal Journey -- Bibliographical Essay -- General Labor and Working-Class Histories -- Chapter 1: "Everyone Was Ready for Unionism": The Precursors, Promises, and Pitfalls of Industrial Unions in the 1930s -- Chapter 2: Big Wars, Big Labor, Big Costs -- Chapter 3: Civil Rights versus Labor Rights, 1960s-1970s -- Chapter 4: Working More for Less and Other Troubles for Workers in the Late Twentieth Century -- Index 
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